Plenary Speakers
Special Sessions
For the 61st Symposium, Patrick Vaccaro, Yale
University, and Robert Field,
MIT, are
organizing a mini-symposium entitled, "Spectral Signatures of
Molecular Dynamics." This mini-symposium will focus on the information
about large amplitude dynamics encoded in molecular spectra (e.g.,
vestiges of isomerization, proton-transfer/hydrogen-bonding,
conformational exchange/tunneling, and chemical reactivity), as well
as the experimental and theoretical techniques employed for the
systematic extraction and detailed interpretation of such data.
Invited speakers include Richard Dixon, University of Bristol;
Michael Heaven, Emory University;
and Timothy Zwier, Purdue University. A
second mini-symposium is being organized by Anne McCoy, The
Ohio State University; and Mark Johnson, Yale University on the
subject of the "Spectroscopy of Water." This symposium focuses on
unraveling the unique properties of water and its water molecules and
the associated networks distort in order to accommodate reactive
intermediates in aqueous chemistry.
Invited talks for this mini-symposium will be given by Kenneth Leopold, University of Minnesota; James Lisy, University of Illinois; and Daniel Neumark, University of California,
Berkeley. A third mini-symposium is being organized by Brooks
Pate and Richard Suenram of University of
Virginia; entitled "New Techniques and Challenges for Rotational
Spectroscopy." This symposium will examine recent experimental
advances that enhance sensitivity, extend the frequency range,
decrease the measurement time, and broaden the range of molecular
systems where rotational spectroscopy can be used. The symposium will
also explore the limits of applying rotational spectroscopy to complex
molecular systems and highlight applications where the strengths of
rotational spectroscopy for structure determination are transferred to
other areas of spectroscopy (through double-resonance techyniques) or
used to analyze moelcules in a sample matrix. Invited speakers include
Jens-Uwe Grabow, Universitat Hannover; and Wolfgang Jaeger, University of Alberta. A session on theory is being
organized by Russell
Pitzer and Anne
McCoy, Ohio State University,
featuring an invited talk by Edwin Sibert, University of Wisconsin.
Last Update:
December, 2005